The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-03-24

\ Asss InpeEsa9s 1nveaeien.
The New Orleans zss- Dsmsoas Of
the goth instant sivss ~ accoast Of .
new invsntiss wtich lromiees yaa and
beneficial rssaltssso tho cotssn planting
South. Il = . nachine fer sihetnally
removing the lint from cotton iced, doing
the work perfectly and with great rapid
ity. A company with . capital Of $780,
600 il to, crest . mill of 100 tons per day
capacity 81 vicksbur 8, aud another CON-
.paay with o. ooo, 900 capital il about to be
organised in New Orlsaus. It may be
presumed that this money would not be
invested II the machine method was not
better than the sulphurio acid method OF
removing the lint practiced by the Oil
Trust Company, which Injuries the seed
for feed purposes, also the oil, and utterly
destroys the lint. The machines are
being turned out rapidly and cheaply at
. foundry and machine shop in New
Orleans. Says the zsnsss- Democrat
This ineeuious piece of mechanism is the in
ventiou Of q Mr.. Crawford, whose handiwork Is
destined to disenihrall the cotton planter and 10
yield untold millions 10 the South by the econo.
mics II will introduce into the manipulation OF
cotton seed. The machine, in the first place,
cleans the seed Of every particle OF lint. so that
II looks NOT unlike small grains Of cofiee In
that condition It can be shipped 10 bulk To Eu
hAa ho<sN
with upclesned seed-where there is practically
an unlimited demand for 1t at high figure. In
1885, Ut $40 466 tons Of cotton seed imported
into Great Britain and sold for 81 85S. 500, the
United States only sent .997 tons, receiving for
same G82, $50 The seed sent from this country
was Sea Island, which. like the Egyptian, is al
most free from Hot.
Next the machine saves from every ton of seed
100 pounds Of lint, which finds ready sale for
paper stock, ETC., at two cents per pound. This
one item means an increase of l, 600 900 bales OF
cotton or lint to the crop at two cents per pound
mo uncomfortable item 10 ITSELF
~ removing the lint from the seed, not only
is IS 90 Of lint obtained per ton, but il enables
the company 10 crush the seed entire, hull and
ell, as is done in England. In this country the
seed Is hrst decortcated, the hull being removed
and some of the kernel being lost with 1t; by
crushing the whole seed the amount of oil OBJ
tanned per ton IL fifiy gallons instead of thirty
cake containing proportion Of the crushed
hula The new company proposes in time not
only to clean the seed but to crush it also after il
10 cleaned.
With these advantages, therefore, il is in a
condition TO pay better price for seed than the
Oil Trusts and gives the planter direct interest
In the success Of its enterprise.
These are big statements, but they have been
demonstrated by actual practical tests, and are
not speculative or predetermined. These results
are being obtained from clean seed every day in
England.
1t is proposed to organize companies
throughout the South, one-half of the
stock to be disposed of to cotton planters
only, who will be paid for their seed in
cash, or the stock of the company, as they
may elect, or they may take stock and
pay for it in accruing dividends, which
will be large, As it has been proved by
actual test that the seed can be cleaned
at . cost of one dollar per ton. The
whole plan of the organization that con.
trolls the machine patent is directly oppo-
site to that of the Oil Trust monopoly,
which was the scheme of northern CAPT.
talists to make money out of the planters,
while this is to enable the planters to
make money out of product of their own
industry. The Oil Trust Company have
upwards of . hundred mills at work
throughout the South, producing over a
half million barrels Of oil per annum by
their inferior method of treating the seed,
and the enormous waste in oil, cake and
lint may be estimated when the compare.
tive figures in the above extract are con-
suited. The saving of that waste by the
machine method would show immense
figures of gain in the value of the cotton
plant product and of profit to its produ-
GERS, and it is to be presumed that the ma.
chine will soon supercede the acid, and
the cotton interest lie relieved of the
shackles of the Oil Trust-that buys seed
at minimum price and obtains from it
minimum output. The profit of the ma
chine to the South may be estimated at
many million dollars per annum, and the
increased value of the cotton plant pro-
duct will go far to compensate to the
planter the disadvantage of the labor of
today as compared with that before the
war.